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Paper, 'On the evidence of fossil plants regarding the age of the tertiary basalts of the north-east Atlantic' by J [John] Starkie Gardner

Reference number: PP/6/3

Date: 1884

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Gardner writes: 'In the following communication I desire to make known to the Society some of the results which I obtained by means of grant given to me by the Government Grant Committee. Brief and incomplete as these notes on the fossil plants must necessarily be at the present stage, they will, I trust, serve to disclose how enormously increased our knowledge must become when the study of these plants shall have been completed.'

Annotations in pencil and ink.

Subject: Geology / Palaeontology

Received 27 November 1884. Read 18 December 1884. Communicated by [Joseph Dalton] Hooker.

A version of this paper was published in volume 38 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'On the evidence of fossil plants regarding the age of the tertiary basalts of the north-east Atlantic'.

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PP/6/3
Earliest possible date
1884
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Ink and graphite pencil on paper
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16 pages
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Manuscript

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John Starkie Gardner

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John Starkie Gardner, Paper, 'On the evidence of fossil plants regarding the age of the tertiary basalts of the north-east Atlantic' by J [John] Starkie Gardner, 1884, PP/6/3, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pp_6_3/paper-on-the-evidence-of-fossil-plants-regarding-the-age-of-the-tertiary-basalts-of-the-north-east-atlantic-by-j-john-starkie-gardner, accessed on 11 December 2024

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